Monday, 7 November 2016

Dosho Port

“People,
Americans especially, do seem to be interested in the fast and easy way,” Dosho
Port told me as we sat in a park in Portland, Maine. “And even though Zen is
the ‘sudden school,’ a lot of times it’s not so fast and not so easy. When I
met Joseph, one of the teachers at the yoga center here, I said, ‘We’re going
to start at 5:30 in the morning.’ He said, ‘Wow. That’s kind of inconvenient.’
And I said, ‘Yeah—you know—Zen is inconvenient, uncomfortable, repetitive, and
uncompromising. Do you want to try it?’ And he said, ‘Yeah. I think so.’”

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Contemporary Zen

Rick McDaniel

Rick McDaniel was raised in Indiana and moved to Canada in
1967, where he taught at the University of New Brunswick and Saint Thomas
University before taking up a career in International Development and Fair
Trade. He is the creator of the YMCA Peace Medallion. A long time Zen
practitioner, he is the author of five books on the subject, including Cypress
Trees in the Garden and Catholicism and Zen.